GNOME 2.12 will be released to the world on September 7th, 2005, culminating 6 months of very exciting work by members of the project. A number of exciting technologies come together in GNOME 2.12 that will set the standard for free software desktops to come. Here is a sample of some of the outstanding work that has gone into GNOME thanks to its many contributors.

The delay with gtk+ 2.7.4 is visible, when moving fast windows around or when the whole screens is redrawn when I switch from a virtual desktop to another.
These are results with cairo+xrender backend, I couldn't find how a way to enable the glitz backend.
I hope that the new xorg acceleration architecture exa will improve the performances.